Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

several OF the Odd Fellows lodges of Sagi-
nav.
Work on the Government building at
Marquette, it is expected, will begin this
summer.
The next meeting of the Saginaw VAL
ley Ministerial Association will be held al
East Saginaw June G.
The tournament of the Romeo fire
department will be held June 16, and pos
itively for one day only.
Postmaster Stearns, of Adrian, has
fitted mp room and donated its use TO the
Young Ladies' Agassiz Society.
The Kalamazoo canning factory will
do up $4,000 cans of tomatoes and about
the same number Of corn. Little attention
will be paid this year TO small fruits.
Within few days Adrian College has
been enriched by two bequests, both by
Pittsburgh parties-from William Morri-
son 5000, and from Mrs. Reeves $1,000.
Clark J. Ryder, whose parents live at
No. 154 West Nineteenth street. Chicago,
while hunting near Ludington, was
fatally wounded by the accidental discharge
Of his gun.
I'm the Washtenaw County collection Of
went through the Revolutionary war and
also that of 1912. 1t is one of the oldest
guns of the kind in the country, and is
highly priced.
July is the 5Sth birthday Of the city
Of Jackson. July A, 1929, three pioneers
and an Indian camped on the present site.
Settlements soon followed and the present
bustling city is the outgrowth, and it hasn't
stopped growing, either.
AT Portage Entry seventeen kegs of
blasting powder and box of Hercules
powder exploded. Two men saw the build
ing was afre and ran to it. When within
thirty feet the explosion occurred, utterly
demolishing the building. Pieces were
blown eighty rods.
F. H. Conant, of Coldwater. President
of the Conant Furniture Company, of To-
ledo. died OF pneumonia, after an illness
of one week. The deceased was II years
of age, and a man of large wealth and
larger heat. He was greatly beloved. The
remains were taken to Camden, N. Y.
I'm 1886 there were 204 marriages
solemnized in Gratiot County. The old
est bridegroom was GA and the youngest
H. IL tIa
youngest IA. OF the brides, twenty two
were only II years old and twenty-one of
them 16 years old each.
Il. j. Bates, political editorof the Lam
sing Republican. has been rendered the
Presidency of the American Association of
Wheelmen. The high compliment paid
Mr.. Bates is thoroughly deserved, but ow-
ing to the demands of that gentlemans
business no has been compelled to decline
the honor.
Mason is wrapped in tho biggest build
ing boom in its history. Over thirty hand
some residences will be built this summer.
The citizens are raising a bonus 10 secure
tho location Of knitting factory employ
ing over one hundred workmen. and have
their eyes fixed on electric lights and like
improvements in the distance.
Rev. w. NJ. Clifford has rendered his
resignation as pastor OF the Methodist
Church Of Plymouth, after nineteen
months pastorate. Rev. Mr.. Clifford un-
derwent n severe attack of typhoid fever in
the fall of 1885, and never fully recovered
from lis effects, and his precarious health
finally necessitated his resignation.
William Walsh, by John Walsh, his
next friend, has commenced suit in the
Circuit Court against the firm Of Eddy
Bros. & Co., of Bay City, for damages to
the amount Of $4,000 for injuries receiv-
ed while at work in their mill, by which. to
use e.. complainants own words, he be-
came "sick, sore, lame, and disordered for
long space of time, and that his right
arm is permanently cripped."
The friends of the Hon. George w.
Jones, of Dubuque, presented him with
$1,000, part of which was used in paving
off a mortgage on his home. Mr.. Jones.
who is sc years old, represented the Terri
tory of Wisconsin in Congress when 1t in
cluded the present State Of Iowa. He was
afterward United States Senator from
Iowa, Minister to Bogota, and United
States Surveyor General.
The Rev. DR.. Timothy G. Pitkin, an
eminent Episcopalian divine, died at his
home in Detroit, He was born Dec. II,
1916, at Farmington, Conn; graduated at
Yale in 1886; took Episcopal orders and
had charge successfully at Louisville, KY;
Rochester, N. Y; New Haven, Conn.
Albany and Buffalo, N. Y; and Detroit.
He came Of a distinguished and patriotic
Connecticut family.
The Mason and 0ceana County log
Ring road will prove q boon to the settlers
in the southwest quarter Of the county. II
passes through well-timbered country
and admits of ready access to market. At
Adamsville the owners Of the road have
established store Of general merchandise
and will build another at the terminus of
the road, Besides large quantities. of
cedar ties aud logs, the owners Of The road
will handle 10000 cords of hemlock bark
this season.
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For the first time in the history of Oge-
NAV County, the proceedings of the Board
Of Supervisors will not be published in